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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: The Trout Quintet Gotcha!
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 15:23:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 15:23:08 1985
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I heard Schubert's "Trout" quintet performed last night.
As has happened all but one of the times I've heard it
in concert, the audience started applauding about two
minutes before the end of the last movement, at the place
where it sounds like it might have ended but hasn't yet.

I know of a few other pieces with similar "gotcha" endings:
Brahms' sextet (Op. 36) and piano quintet (Op. 34) come to
mind.  I also recently heard a performance of Tchaikovsky's
6th symphony in which the audience started applauding wildly
at the end of the 3rd movement.  Some of them had already
gotten up to leave when the orchestra began the fourth movement.

Any other good "gotcha" endings out there?